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Vulture Capitalism
By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2024 Womenās Prize for Nonfiction
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the... Read more
Shakespeare's Sisters
By: Ramie Targoff
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of āa room of oneās own.ā
In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeareās... Read more
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
By: Beverly Gage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 36 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the 2022Ā National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington... Read more
American Prometheus
By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 26 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more
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The End of Everything
By: Victor Davis Hanson
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Timesābestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time
War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilizationāsometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to... Read more
Fight Like Hell
By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory and inclusive book āunearths the stories of the peopleāfarm laborers, domestic workers, factory employeesābehind some of the labor movementās biggest successesā (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more
The Rediscovery of America
By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American... Read more
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The Birds That Audubon Missed
By: Kenn Kaufman
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world.
Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with... Read more
Team of Rivals
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 41 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwinās modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.
Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more
Opposable Thumbs
By: Matt Singer
Narrated by: Matt Singer
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didnāt check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.
You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it ātwo thumbs up.ā
On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before theyād ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene... Read more
World on the Brink
By: Dmitri Alperovitch & Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it tookĀ place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred.
InĀ World on the... Read more
Collapse
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 23 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Unionāshowing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the... Read more
A Body Made of Glass
By: Caroline Crampton
Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Part cultural history, partĀ literary criticism, and part memoir,Ā A Body Made of GlassĀ is aĀ definitive biographyĀ of hypochondria.Caroline Cramptonās life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkinās lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But... Read more
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When We Rise
By: Cleve Jones
Narrated by: Cleve Jones
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering... Read more
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Born in Blood and Fire
By: John Charles Chasteen
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.
Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society and facilitate meaningful connections between the Encounter and the present. Read more
The Bounty
By: Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.
More than two centuries after Masterās Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed... Read more
The Everything War
By: Dana Mattioli
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt & Dana Mattioli
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Most Anticipated byĀ Foreign Policy, Globe and Mail
āRiveting and explosive.ā ā Christopher Leonard
From veteran Amazon reporter forĀ The Wall Street Journal, The Everything WarĀ is the first untold, devastating exposĆ© of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any... Read more
The Six
By: Loren Grush
Narrated by: InƩs del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
āVivid.ā āThe Guardian * āEngrossing.ā āBooklist * āSuspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.ā āMargot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures
In this account of Americaās first women astronauts āGrush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nationās desire to conquer space, but... Read more
Madness
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition ofĀ The Immortal Life ofĀ HenriettaĀ Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nationās last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in Americaās mental healthcare system.Ā
On a cold day in March ofĀ 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
Four Hundred Souls
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A chorus of extraordinary voices comesĀ together to tell one of historyās great epics:Ā theĀ four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentāedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author ofĀ How to Be an Antiracist,Ā and Keisha N. Blain, author ofĀ Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619āa year before the Mayflowerāwhen the White Lion... Read more
Prequel
By: Rachel Maddow
Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢ Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
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āA ripping readāwell rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same... Read more
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappe
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
Denied for almost six decades, had it... Read more
I Never Thought of It That Way
By: MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n
Narrated by: MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.
Journalist MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who votedātwiceāfor Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, MĆ³nica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool... Read more
The 48 Laws of Power
By: Robert Greene
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 23 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate controlāfrom the author of The Laws of Human Nature.
In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost... Read more